Have you looked at whether the card has internal/external 12v jumpers? I have an old vt603 based board and the purpose is to enable the card to power the device. I've never had the problem you describe but that seems like a likely culprit. I allways leave the option off. Daniel
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:48 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Odin Omdal Hørthe pravi: > >> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Stefan de Konink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>>> do you experience similar problems?how do you protect your cams from >>>> getting fried? >>>> >>> Actually the other way around; one of my teachers in his research project >>> fried 5+ firewire cards. I guess it is just bad grounding. >>> >> >> I fried my old Sony DCR TRV900e using Linux. It's too bad. I was going >> to use it as a very expensive and good webcam. :-/ >> >> thx for the answers > > but i'm trying to understand how does this happen? I was told i'm not > supposed to hotplug firewire devices (even tough FW is hotplugable). but the > last camera died while capturing with kino - so its not hot plugging. Some > people tell me that i have bad hardware (FW card, mobo or PSU), then others > tell me that the power line might be bad (and some other say that power line > should have no effect on the cam if it runs from a battery and the only > contact with power line is the computer). > where might be my source of problems? > > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > Cinelerra@skolelinux.no > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra >
